Survey of 2022 Senate campaign websites: on Health Care


Alex Lasry: Healthcare a human right, add public option to ACA

I believe that healthcare is a human right, and we need to ensure that everyone has access to quality affordable healthcare. I support adding a robust public option to the Affordable Care Act because I believe that this is the fastest way to get everyone covered. We also must ensure that the public option is set up so people can seamlessly transition in and out of the public plan.
Source: 2022 Wisconsin Senate campaign website AlexLasry.com Nov 16, 2019

Alex Padilla: 2006: Fought for universal health care

In 2006, Alex was elected to the State Senate. He fought for universal health care, stopping tobacco sales to minors, fighting diabetes and obesity, expanding patient protections and improving food safety.
Source: 2022 California Senate campaign website Alex-Padilla.com Dec 23, 2020

Cheri Beasley: Expand ObamaCare with public option, expand Medicaid

Cheri supports expanding the Affordable Care Act with a public option, lowering the cost of prescription drugs, and protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions. She will support Governor Cooper's efforts to expand Medicaid and will work to increase resources for rural hospitals and health care providers.
Source: 2022 N.C. Senate campaign website CheriBeasley.com Dec 1, 2021

Chris Van Hollen: Ensure universal access to affordable health care

One of the most fundamental responsibilities of government is to ensure universal access to affordable health care. Chris has worked tirelessly to defend the Affordable Care Act against Republican attacks and increase access to mental health and other services. He has championed measures to reduce prescription drug and health care costs, address the medical debt crisis, and end health disparities that mostly impact women and minorities.
Source: 2022 Maryland Senate campaign website VanHollen.org Jul 20, 2022

Chris Van Hollen: Let Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices

Chris believes deeply in the promises we make to those who have earned the dignity of a secure retirement after paying into Medicare and Social Security all their working lives. He has been a leader in protecting and strengthening benefits for seniors and he'll never back down from that fight. He has played a pivotal role in the battle to give Medicare the power to negotiate lower costs for prescription drugs and to close the existing coverage gaps for hearing, dental and vision services.
Source: 2022 Maryland Senate campaign website VanHollen.org Jul 20, 2022

Cindy Axne: Member of Affordable and Accessible Health Care Task Force

Cindy's top priority in Congress is working to fix our broken health care system so that every Iowan has access to quality, affordable health care. Cindy will never let Washington go back to a time when Iowans with pre-existing conditions could be denied care. As a member of the Affordable and Accessible Health Care Task Force, Cindy is committed to advancing practical, bipartisan policies to improve our healthcare system.
Source: 2022 Iowa Senate campaign website axne.house.gov Apr 19, 2021

David McCormick: Government should never impose vaccine mandates

COVID lockdowns have damaged our children and destroyed small businesses, and the big government overreach has to stop. Unlike Anthony Fauci and President Biden, Dave trusts the American people and stands for personal freedom. He believes the government should never impose vaccine mandates on citizens and children belong in school. Parents should be deciding what is best for their children, not teachers' unions and special interests.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign web DaveMcCormickPA.com May 22, 2022

David Roth: Fix the gaps in the ACA, especially in under-served areas

The Affordable Care Act did much to expand access to critical healthcare. However, there are still some shortfalls. Of particular concern are the high cost of prescription drugs and the poor coverage of and access to mental health services, especially in rural areas. I would like to see increased investments in telehealth infrastructure to bring critical services to underserved areas. I believe that we need to work to fix the gaps in the ACA.
Source: 2022 Idaho Senate campaign website RothForIdaho.org May 22, 2022

Evan McMullin: Negotiate lower drug prices, expand telemedicine

Source: 2022 Utah Senate campaign website EvanMcMullin.com Jun 10, 2022

Gerald Malloy: No Universal Healthcare but improve Medicare, Medicaid, VA

Reduce healthcare costs, not Universal Healthcare but Initiatives to reduce price gouging and improve Medicare, Medicaid, and Veteran's Administration operations.

No more unconstitutional Federal actions or initiatives like Mask and Vaccine Mandates that have destroyed our Economy. Take a drive down almost any Main Street and see the shuttered businesses.

Source: 2022 Vermont Senate campaign website DeployMalloy.com Aug 16, 2022

James Vandermaas: Proposes Dual Payer plan, free to choose primary coverage

Under Dual Payer, all commercial insurance, union insurance, or your plan through the ACA will always be first payer for healthcare costs. Comprehensive Medicare will pick up the rest.

All people will be fully covered, utilizing both commercial health insurance or the ACA, with Comprehensive Medicare as the secondary payer. You will get to keep whatever insurance you already have--If you like it. It's still a free market under my plan, so you are free to get your primary coverage from anywhere.

Source: 2022 Nevada Senate campaign website VoteVandermaas.com Dec 9, 2021

Jeff Bartos: Vaccine mandate is a backbreaker for small businesses

Jeff will fight back against any and all attempts at instituting a federal vaccine mandate. These mandates are a backbreaker for small businesses, driving up operating costs, and forcing even more businesses to close. If the Coronavirus pandemic taught us one thing, it is that small businesses cannot afford more burdensome regulation from lawmakers who have no idea what running a business entails.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website JeffBartos.com Jul 19, 2021

Jim Lamon: Redesign or eliminate Obamacare for more efficiency

Source: 2022 Arizona Senate campaign website JimLamon.com Apr 20, 2022

Joan Farr: Forced vaccines are a violation of your rights

Have you lost a loved one from Covid or your job for refusing the vaccine? Mass pro se lawsuits will end the pandemic -- not vaccines. You can learn how to DIY at AssocForHonestAttys.com, just click on "How to File a Federal Suit." If elected, I will ensure that your case is settled fairly an equitably.

Forced vaccines are a violation of your rights, especially the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Don't let anyone tell you different. My extensive research and experience shows that CIA agents are posing as minimally trained medical personnel in Wichita area hospitals to try and cause the death of patients from 'natural causes.' They are also extorting money from unsuspecting wealthy people using the court system. If elected, I will be working to ban the CIA in Kansas.

The coronavirus pandemic [was] begun by the Deep State.

Source: 2022 Oklahoma Senate campaign website JoanFarr.com Jul 19, 2021

Krystle Matthews: Universal health care must be a right not a privilege!

Universal health care must be a right not a privilege! so everyone has the chance to live a healthy life, and our government needs to act to protect the foundations of our health
Source: 2022 S.C. Senate campaign website MatthewsForSenate.com May 29, 2022

Luke Mixon: Healthcare is a right, not a privilege

Healthcare is a right, not a privilege:

Medicaid expansion in Louisiana gave over 500,000 hard-working Louisianans healthcare that they desperately needed. However, Senator Kennedy has repeatedly tried to take their coverage away. We need leaders who will work to lower the costs of healthcare and prescription drugs, not career politicians who want to rob working families of their coverage.

Source: 2022 Louisiana Senate campaign website LukeMixon.com Jul 19, 2021

Madison Horn: Expand Medicare/Medicaid to include other social programs

  • Advance legislation that expands Medicare and Medicaid to include a number of other social programs
  • Promote price-lowering competition in the prescription drug market
  • Expand patient choice in insurance and care providers while expanding Medicaid
  • Require hospital price and quality transparency for patients
  • Support legislation to expand coverage of digital health services and at-home care (i.e. telehealth)
Source: 2022 Oklahoma Senate campaign website MadisonHorn.com Aug 24, 2022

Mark Brnovich: Filed first lawsuit against national COVID vaccine mandate

  • Democrats have been using "emergencies" and COVID-19 to bludgeon Arizonans' rights.
  • Filed a first-in-the-nation lawsuit against the Biden Administration over their overreaching, illegal and unconstitutional national vaccine mandate.
  • Clarified citizens' right to ignore Tucson's illegal vaccine mandate, bringing relief to Tucson city employees.
Source: 2022 Arizona Senate campaign website BrnoForAZ.com Nov 21, 2021

Mark Brnovich: Fighting illegal and unconstitutional COVID-19 mandates

America does best when Americans make their own decisions, not the government. Health choices are no exception. Biden and local Democrats have been using "emergencies" and COVID-19 to bludgeon Arizonans' rights. Mark Brnovich is fighting illegal and unconstitutional COVID-19 mandates and forcing authoritarians to account for their anti-American power grabs. Americans should have the right to try, as well as the right not to try.
Source: 2022 Arizona Senate campaign website KellyForAK.com Jan 5, 2022

Mark Holland: Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege

Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege. We must provide affordable healthcare to every person and every community. Too many rural and urban hospitals have closed, while politicians play a pointless culture war instead of expanding Medicaid. There have also been too many irresponsible conspiracy theories about this global pandemic and vaccines that risk setting our country back 100 years in public health and wellbeing.
Source: 2022 Kansas Senate campaign website HollandForKansas.com Jun 26, 2022

Mark Meuser: COVID isolation policy caused poor job market & inflation

[Letters posted on Twitter]: Dear Gavin,

I appreciate your concern for Californians struggling to make ends meet with record inflation, gas prices, and a poor job market (which you caused with your COVID policies).

But government spending is what has caused record inflation in the first place.

Your 'solution' will only make the problem worse. Your 'solution' doesn't get to the causes of inflation.

When I am elected to the U.S. Senate, I will start working on the root causes right away. I will stop the reckless government spending.

Dear Dr. Fauci and Gavin Newsom,

Your policies during #covid where people were isolated not because of health status but based on your determination of how essential their occupation was not only violated their Due Process rights but it also contradicted the science.

Follow the science should not be a sound bite, it should actually be the guiding principle of a governor and public health official.

Source: 2022 California Senate campaign website MarkMeuser.com Jun 12, 2022

Mehmet Oz: Elites fighting COVID pandemic took away our freedom

Covid-19 became an excuse for government and elite thinkers who controlled the means of communication, especially social media and our major news agencies, to suspend debate. Doctors were forbidden from prescribing legal medications for the first time in our nation's history. I tried to fund clinical trials to re-purpose an already widely used drug for possible benefits against Covid-19, but they were banned. Instead, government mandated policies that caused unnecessary suffering.

We were told to docilely lock down and let those in charge take care of the rest. When we tested positive for the virus, we were also told to wait at home until we got sick enough to warrant hospitalization.not a typical medical protocol. Elites with yards told those without yards to stay inside--where the virus was more likely to spread. And the arrogant, closed-minded people in charge closed our schools, shut down our businesses and took away our freedom.

Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website DoctorOz.com Dec 8, 2021

Mehmet Oz: Expand access to private sector plans for prescription drugs

As a doctor, Oz has seen the inside of the massive health-care industrial complex. He's bravely argued against costly drugs, even as it made him a target of drug companies. As a U.S. Senator, he'll work to dismantle policies that lead to more expensive prescription drugs for our seniors, and he'll expand access to private sector plans expanded by President Trump and beloved by seniors for their low costs and high quality that could be available to all Americans who want them.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website DoctorOz.com Dec 8, 2021

Michael Franken: Seeks to pick up the banner of disability advocate

As the father of a child with disabilities, he has seen how inconsistent care can be in years where he was transferred 17 different times. She would have great support in one community and the next there would be no support. For his daughter and for veterans who were injured, he seeks to pick up the banner of former Senator Tom Harkin as a disability advocate.
Source: 2022 IA Senate campaign website FrankenForIowa.com Jun 9, 2022

Michael Franken: Add essential vision, hearing, dental services to Medicare

Iowans deserve a health care system like the one I had in the military; one that provides high quality and affordable health care. A big first step is to make Medicare available starting at age 50. It can be improved by adding coverage for basic, essential vision, hearing, and dental services. Adding this vital coverage will greatly improve the health and quality of life for older Iowans.
Source: 2022 IA Senate campaign website FrankenForIowa.com Jun 9, 2022

Michael Franken: Let Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices

High drug prices are putting too many Iowans at risk. Many skip getting needed prescriptions filled, cut their pills in half, or take them less often than required. To drive down the cost, Medicare needs to do what the Veterans Administration does--use its national purchasing power to negotiate prices with drug companies. We have a system in place that works. Let's expand it to benefit everyone.
Source: 2022 IA Senate campaign website FrankenForIowa.com Jun 9, 2022

Michael J. Steele: We can give people free healthcare & free education

Of all the great industrial nations in the world we don't give our people free healthcare or a free education. I believe we can do both by eliminating government duplicity in some major areas. We have over 20,000 internal agencies doing many of the same things.
Source: 2022 N.D.Senate campaign website MichaelJSteeleForSenate.com Dec 9, 2021

Mike Durant: Opposes mask and vaccine mandates; should be free choice

Mike Durant is a successful businessman and job creator who started a home-based engineering and services company and grew it to over 500 employees. He has seen first-hand the effects of Biden's COVID mandates, which caused layoffs and hurt Mike's ability to serve the Department of Defense. Mike opposes mask mandates and believes individuals should have the choice as to whether or not they take the vaccine after consulting with the doctor.
Source: 2022 Alabama Senate campaign website MikeDurant.com Mar 30, 2022

Natalie James: Defend and improve the Affordable Care Act

    As your Senator, Natalie James will:
  • Defend Protections for those with pre-existing conditions.
  • Support legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs and measures to allow Medicaid to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies.
  • Defend and improve the Affordable Care Act.
  • Hold Big Pharma accountable for its role in the opioid epidemic.
Source: 2022 Arkansas Senate campaign website JamesForArkansas.com Jun 7, 2022

Natalie Fleming: Universal Catastrophic Insurance for expenses over $50,000

Elegantly simple Healthcare Solutions:
  1. Universal Catastrophic Insurance for medical expenses over $50,000.
  2. Direct Primary Care: Small Family Practices charge simple monthly fee providing care.
  3. Individuals and families can purchase Gap Health insurance for the in-between.
  4. Allow Medicaid recipients to opt into Direct Primary Care. Medicaid pays the monthly fee.
Source: 2022 Idaho Senate campaign website NatalieIsAwesome.com Jun 28, 2022

Rick Becker: Won't tolerate government COVID fearmongering and scientism

Never before in living memory has the government overreacted and overreached as it has during COVID fearmongering and scientism. The blatant and egregious overstepping of the federal government in crushing our liberties in a fumbling, ham-handed attempt to provide some safety can never again be tolerated.
Source: 2022 N.D. Senate campaign website RickBecker2022.com Mar 14, 2022

Ron Hanks: Federal government lies about experimental COVID vaccine

You work to implement vaccine mandates on the country, while the federal government lies about the efficacy of the experimental vaccine, changes reporting guidelines, CDC definitions, and statistics on side-effects. Your policies are bent on control and dominion over the public, while federal agencies lie to keep people ignorant and compliant. This is no longer a government serving the people. It is an entity built for control over the masses by the power-elite.
Source: 2022 Colorado Senate campaign website: letter to Joe Biden Sep 11, 2021

Sharif Street: Create a public option to compete with private insurers

The Affordable Care Act provided many unisured Pennsylvanians an opportunity to purchase affordable health insurance as part of the Healthcare Marketplace. Over the past few years, premiums have continued to rise, making options in the market place harder for many to access. Sharif supports creating a "Public Option" to compete with private insurers in the marketplace and the creation of a reinsurance program in Pennsylvania that would help insurers lower their premiums.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website StreetForPA.com Jun 27, 2022

Tammy Baldwin: Good health care for all, especially the most vulnerable

Senator Duckworth will fight to achieve high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans, and she is willing to work with anyone to expand access to health insurance, bring down costs and improve the quality of care for Illinois families. That means helping develop proposals that protect patients from abusive practices, lower prescription drug costs and guarantee that Veterans, children, families and most vulnerable citizens receive the high-quality care every American deserves.
Source: 2022 Wisconsin Senate campaign website baldwin.senate.gov Oct 16, 2019

Thomas McDermott: Supports creation of an affordable public option

I believe in the creation of an affordable public option. Millions of people in the US that have excellent employer-provided health insurance, and they shouldn't have to give up their private insurance. But for those among us with no insurance, or that are underinsured, a public option would not only provide them with the ability to get the care they need; but would lower costs by creating more competition with insurance companies.
Source: 2022 Indiana Senate campaign website GoMcDermott.com May 8, 2022

Trudy Busch Valentine: Reduce costs so every family can have access to quality care

Trudy is still a nurse at heart today. Trudy serves on a nursing board and works with multiple charitable organizations that focus on children's issues. In 2019, Saint Louis University established the "Trudy Busch Valentine School of Nursing." As a former nurse, she knows first-hand how precious healthcare is to families, and how important it is to get healthcare costs down so that every family can have access to quality care.

Limiting the cost of insulin to $35. More than 37 million Americans live with diabetes, including at least 685,000 people in Missouri. On top of that, nearly 1.6 million people in our state--one third of the total adult population--have prediabetes. As too many families know, living with diabetes can be very expensive. That's why Trudy supports capping the cost of insulin to $35 a month. Missourians shouldn't have to choose between their health and their basic necessities.

Source: 2022 MO Senate campaign website TrudyBuschValentine.com Jul 31, 2022

Trudy Busch Valentine: Increase in-home and community services for seniors

The median yearly cost of in-home care with a home health aide in 2020 was $54,912. That's why in the Senate, Trudy will invest in in-home and community-based services for seniors under Medicaid. By increasing access to in-home and community services, we can ensure that low-income seniors have access to compassionate care at the end of life.
Source: 2022 MO Senate campaign website TrudyBuschValentine.com Jul 31, 2022

Val Arkoosh: Focus on disparities in health outcomes for Black moms

Val believes this must include a focus on the disparities in health outcomes for Black moms, which she has seen firsthand during her time on the labor and delivery floor, and her position on Pennsylvania's Maternal Mortality Review Committee. She understands that improving health outcomes for Black moms will require investment, implicit bias training, programming that reaches moms during pregnancy and when they are postpartum and expanding postpartum Medicaid coverage.
Source: 2022 Pennsylvania Senate campaign website ValArkoosh.com Dec 19, 2021

Will Boyd: Support a health care program affordable to all

  • Support expansion of Medicaid in Alabama
  • Support and introduce legislation that helps fill the healthcare/Medicaid coverage gap that exists for women in Alabama
  • Support a health care program affordable to all
  • Work to lower prescription drug costs in the United States
  • Improve and protect Medicare and Medicaid
  • Work with the Offices of the Secretary of Health and Human Services to use the bargaining power of 40 million Medicare beneficiaries to negotiate better drug prices while also providing beneficiaries with an option to obtain drug coverage directly from Medicare rather than a private plan
Source: 2022 Alabama Senate campaign website DrWillBoyd.com May 25, 2022

Gary Chambers: Medicare for All, healthcare is a right not a privilege

A single-payer healthcare system, also known as Medicare for All. The time for debate around this measure has long since passed. It is clear that we need to overhaul the health insurance industry to ensure that all Americans are able to afford healthcare. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
Source: 2022 Senate campaign website ChambersForLouisiana.com Oct 12, 2022

John Flynn: Affordable healthcare that won't impose on personal freedom

  • I Believe in Affordable Healthcare that Doesn't Impose on Personal Freedom
  • Pandemic solutions with [finance &] insurance.
  • I am an advocate's advocate for the disabled and veterans.
  • I promise to work toward solutions in Medicare and Medicaid.
  • I support Christian family values and Constitutional protections regarding healthcare choices.
  • I believe we need to reassess prescription drug costs.
Source: 2022 CT Senate campaign website Flynn2022USSenate.com Oct 4, 2022

Luke Mixon: Life-saving drugs should be affordable

In the wealthiest nation on earth, living-saving drugs should be affordable. Instead, we see neighboring countries enjoying the benefits of affordable medicines while Americans go broke at the pharmacy. I will fight to ensure that no one has to choose between filling a prescription and paying the light bill.
Source: 2022 Louisiana Senate campaign website LukeMixon.com Oct 12, 2022

  • The above quotations are from Survey of 2022 Senate campaign websites.
  • Click here for definitions & background information on Health Care.
  • Click here for other issues (main summary page).
  • Click here for more quotes by Kamala Harris on Health Care.
  • Click here for more quotes by Catherine Cortez Masto on Health Care.
Candidates and political leaders on Health Care:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
Please consider a donation to OnTheIssues.org!
Click for details -- or send donations to:
1770 Mass Ave. #630, Cambridge MA 02140
E-mail: submit@OnTheIssues.org
(We rely on your support!)

Page last updated: Jun 05, 2024